LSP hover responses escape backticks within inline code

src/LanguageServer/Protocol/Extensions/ProtocolConversions.cs

@@ -216,9 +216,9 @@ public static Uri CreateAbsoluteUri(string absolutePath)
 
         internal static Uri CreateRelativePatternBaseUri(string path)
         {
-            // According to VSCode LSP RelativePattern spec, 
+            // According to VSCode LSP RelativePattern spec,
             // found at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/9e1974682eb84eebb073d4ae775bad1738c281f6/src/vscode-dts/vscode.d.ts#L2226
-            // the baseUri should not end in a trailing separator, nor should it 
+            // the baseUri should not end in a trailing separator, nor should it
             // have any relative segmeents (., ..)
             if (path[^1] == System.IO.Path.DirectorySeparatorChar)
             {
@@ -995,7 +995,7 @@ static string GetStyledText(TaggedText taggedText, bool isInCodeBlock)
                 if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(taggedText.NavigationHint) && taggedText.NavigationHint == taggedText.NavigationTarget)
                     return $"[{text}]({taggedText.NavigationHint})";
 
-                // Markdown ignores spaces at the start of lines outside of code blocks, 
+                // Markdown ignores spaces at the start of lines outside of code blocks,
                 // so we replace regular spaces with non-breaking spaces to ensure structural space is retained.
                 // We want to use regular spaces everywhere else to allow the client to wrap long text.
                 if (!isCode && taggedText.Tag is TextTags.Space or TextTags.ContainerStart)
@@ -1007,7 +1007,8 @@ static string GetStyledText(TaggedText taggedText, bool isInCodeBlock)
                     TaggedTextStyle.Strong => $"**{text}**",
                     TaggedTextStyle.Emphasis => $"_{text}_",
                     TaggedTextStyle.Underline => $"<u>{text}</u>",
-                    TaggedTextStyle.Code => $"`{text}`",
+                    // Use double backticks to escape code which contains a backtick.
+                    TaggedTextStyle.Code => text.Contains('`') ? $"``{text}``" : $"`{text}`",
                     _ => text,
                 };
             }

src/LanguageServer/ProtocolUnitTests/Hover/HoverTests.cs

@@ -466,6 +466,39 @@ void A.AMethod(int i)
             Assert.Equal(expectedMarkdown, results.Contents.Fourth.Value);
         }
 
+        [Theory, CombinatorialData, WorkItem("https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dotnettools/issues/1499")]
+        public async Task TestGetHoverAsync_UsingMarkupContentEscapesBacktickInCode(bool mutatingLspWorkspace)
+        {
+            var markup =
+@"class A
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Hello <c>A`1[B,C]</c>
+    /// </summary>
+    void {|caret:AMethod|}(int i)
+    {
+    }
+}";
+            var clientCapabilities = new LSP.ClientCapabilities
+            {
+                TextDocument = new LSP.TextDocumentClientCapabilities { Hover = new LSP.HoverSetting { ContentFormat = [LSP.MarkupKind.Markdown] } }
+            };
+            await using var testLspServer = await CreateTestLspServerAsync(markup, mutatingLspWorkspace, clientCapabilities);
+            var expectedLocation = testLspServer.GetLocations("caret").Single();
+
+            var expectedMarkdown = @"```csharp
+void A.AMethod(int i)
+```
+
+Hello&nbsp;``A`1[B,C]``  
+";
+
+            var results = await RunGetHoverAsync(
+                testLspServer,
+                expectedLocation).ConfigureAwait(false);
+            Assert.Equal(expectedMarkdown, results.Contents.Fourth.Value);
+        }
+
         [Theory, CombinatorialData, WorkItem("https://github.com/dotnet/vscode-csharp/issues/6577")]
         public async Task TestGetHoverAsync_UsesInlineCodeFencesInAwaitReturn(bool mutatingLspWorkspace)
         {